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SILP Student Expectations

Pomona College’s SILP program offers students with excellent language skills an opportunity to study languages not currently offered in classroom courses at any of the 5Cs. The program admits highly-motivated students with a record of past success in language learning. Students admitted to the program normally have done very well in previous language courses, have completed the language requirement of their college, and demonstrate readiness to undertake independent work.

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Who May Enroll

SILP at Pomona College is currently a pilot program. Enrollment is limited to 10 students with a limit of 5 students per section.

First-semester students are not eligible for SILP.

Students must have satisfied their college’s foreign language requirement. If a college does not have such a requirement, then students must have completed 3 semesters of a college-level language. SILP is intended to enhance, not replace, offerings of existing language programs at The Claremont Colleges.

Students with previous language experience will need to take a placement exam; contact Oldenborg for more information.

SILP courses are suitable for beginners or near beginners, but not for students who already posses an intermediate or advanced proficiency in the language, including those who speak a language but wish to learn to read and write.

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